450 years old map...
— ArchaeoHistories (@histories_arch) May 18, 2026
This famous world map, titled Typus Orbis Terrarum, was created by Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius in 1570 AD, and is widely considered the first modern atlas map. Published during the Age of Exploration, it combined geographic knowledge gathered from… pic.twitter.com/GcQGbUX6bQ
See now Oblivion shimmering all around us, its very tranquility deadlier than tempest. How little all our keels have troubled it. Our ships were all unseaworthy from the first.
— Durrell Society (@DurrellSociety) May 17, 2026
There goes the raft that Homer made for Helen.
— Lord Dunsany#homer#seaworthy pic.twitter.com/EmUm4c4rpN
The “The Tubeless Siphon ” with polymer fluids reminds me how intuition can blind observation. Every instinct says the flow should stop once the glass is upright, yet the liquid keeps climbing the wall and draining itself. Reality doesn’t care what feels obvious. pic.twitter.com/JTK4zPmeBu
— Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP) (@SocraticScribe) May 18, 2026
this is perfect, no notes https://t.co/BdFc7suVNr
— Dilan Esper (@dilanesper) May 15, 2026
Walking ~3,800 steps/day was linked to a 25% lower risk of dementia.
— Mario Tomic (@mariotomich) May 18, 2026
And ~9,800 steps/day with about a 50% lower risk.
If dementia runs in your family, daily walks are a no-brainer. pic.twitter.com/KAcMWvUo1t
Medieval scribes would sometimes finish their work by writing:
— Grǣġhama (@grahamscheper) May 17, 2026
"tres digiti scribunt, totum corpusque laborat"
(three fingers write, but the entire body labors)
A testament to how immensely arduous and monotonous the scribal process must have been. pic.twitter.com/m4cu6erCso
I've used this answer many times. Credit for the analogy goes to Steve Goldberg, an NYU sociology professor. Any time you hear that "the best [name a cognitively demanding profession] often aren't the ones with the highest IQs," this is a useful response:
— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) May 18, 2026
"The relationship of IQ… https://t.co/o7OjF4HqO4
Fallingwater, the modern house prototype built by Frank Lloyd Wright over a waterfall in 1935 pic.twitter.com/FXWsPfqxxL
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 18, 2026
Nailed it. pic.twitter.com/UzI8EYrJcq
— Mary J. Ruwart Ph.D. (@MaryRuwart) May 18, 2026
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